Placentitis Research Could Help Prevent Late-Term Abortions
- Topics: Article, Mare Care and Problems, Placentitis
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Placentitis, which often is caused by an ascending infection that enters the mare’s uterus through the cervix, is the single most important cause of premature delivery of a foal. Placentitis accounts for nearly one-third of late-term abortions and fetal mortality in the first day of life. During the past six years, the University of Kentucky (UK) Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center has diagnosed 1,429 cases of placentitis.
Mats Troedsson, DVM, Dipl. ACT, is the chair of UK’s Department of Veterinary Science and director of the Gluck Equine Research Center. Troedsson served as professor and service chief in theriogenology and director of equine research programs at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine before coming to the Gluck Equine Research Center in 2008.
In the early 1990s, Troedsson began using ultrasound to examine placentas in clinical cases. That led to a study establishing normal values for transrectal ultrasound examination of the combined thickness of the uterus and placenta. During the last 10 years, Troedsson’s research has had a different focus, and his contribution has been limited to evaluating the efficacy of different treatment regimens for placentitis and case reports of clinical cases in collaboration with Margo Macpherson, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACT, associate professor of theriogenology in Large Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Florida. .
Because there are still many unanswered questions about an accurate diagnostics, prognostics, monitoring of fetal well-being, and treatment in high-risk pregnancies, Troedsson plans to revisit this research topic with the reproduction group at the Gluck Center
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